本文将明代中叶王阳明的“致良知”和美国当代心理学家丹尼尔·高曼的EQ感情智商理论进行比较,目的在于揭示道德建设的主体性特征,对人类内心情感的认知、领悟和控制、调节是中西道德家们共同的认识,也是道德建设的基础和出发点。今天我们可用丹尼尔·高曼揭示的人脑科学理论,证明中国古代哲人克己、内省、体验、忠恕、爱人等道德范畴的科学内涵,正可以为今天的道德建设增添内在动力和传统资源。 This article compares Wang Yangming’s “Conscience” with the EQ theory of emotional intelligence in the United States by contemporary American psychologist Daniel Gohman. The purpose of this article is to reveal the subjective characteristics of moral construction and the cognition, comprehension, Control and adjustment are the common understanding of Chinese and Western ethics, and they are also the basis and starting point of moral construction. Today we can use the theory of human brain revealed by Daniel Goldman to prove that the scientific connotation of the ethical category of ancient Chinese philosophers such as self-denial, introspection, experience, loyalty and forgiveness, and lovers can help to add intrinsic motivation and traditional resources to today’s moral construction.